Authoring system concept and design for ebook digitization process for efficient online eContent documentation, search, and distribution

This paper presents the concept and design of an authoring system for creating and building an application program for an ebook package, or an ebook portfolio, that would include metadata, meta-content, and other related materials and resources that are stored in a dedicated database. This system is basically a digitization process of the different phase of ebook authoring and development, as well as a structure collection of various type of content and information in a form of hypertext documents, multimedia, and presentations. Although this authoring system has been designed with academic books in mind, it is very suitable for any type of documentation or eContent such as articles, papers, reports, and presentations. This approach of ebook and econtent authoring and development is very useful for online search, manipulation, indexing, distribution and even marketing. Based on the proposed content structured content, Web content can be easily and reliably accessible for search and information retrieval. Furthermore, Natural Language Processing techniques such as text mining, indexing, tagging, information retrieval for online content document processing would be implemented more reliable and efficiently. Overall concepts and design of the authoring system approach is presented in this paper with the different phases involved.